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Cigar-Packing Press.

No. 224,208; Patented Feb. 3, 1880.

I UNITED STATES! PATENT. OFFI E.

FREDRIOK c. MILLER, or NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

CIGAR-PACKING VPRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,208, dated February 3, 1880.

Application filed December 2 2, 1379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRIGK O. MILLER, of Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Presses for Packing Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in presses, and is peculiarly adapted to pressing packages in which it is desired to have the packages of uniform size, and is therefore especially adapted to pressing cigars into boxes.

My invention consists in providing a sliding nut, through which works the ordinary pressscrew carrying the platen; also, in combining with this sliding nut a crank and pitman operated by a lever, so as to raise and lower the platen by simply moving a lever, at the. same time allowing the-screw to be used, if desired. The screw is especially adapted for adjusting the distance between the platen and bed of the press to determine the size of the package.

Otherfeatures of my invention will be fully described in the following specification and drawings, making a part of the same.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure l is a vertical elevation, partly in sec tion, showing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan View, partly in section, of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical elevation of a portion of Fig. 1.

A represents-the bed of the press; B, the column, supporting on its overhanging top the pressing devices. '0 represents a screw carrying platen O. D represents a sliding nut, working in boxing D in the top of column B and centrally over table A. E represents a handle for operating screw 0. I represents a box or opening in the top of colninn B. Krepresents a journal-box projecting out from one side of column B opposite the center of opening I. G represents a crank-shaft journaling in-box K. One end of crank-shaft G projects through the bearing K, to which is secured lever F.

H is a pitman, and h a pivot securing pitman H to sliding nut D.

The crank L and pitman H form a toggle. As lever F is raised sliding nut D is retracted and the screw C and platen G are raised.

The lever F is always in a horizontal position when at rest or when pressing the package, and the platen 0 starts to move just as soon as the lever. F is raised from its horizontal position, so that, of course, it never assumes a vertical position except when in its path of operation.

'J represents a cigar-box filled with cigars, which the platen has pressed into position. 0 represents a slot cut into boxing I for the insertion of the crank-shaft through the bearing K. Pitman H is secured to the crank by means of a screw, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

A stop, 15, is provided on pitman H, which,

as the lever F is brought down, comes in con-,

tact with the back of slot or boxing I, and arrests or stops the movement of the pressure and looks it in position.

The screw is mainly employed to regulate the distance between the platen and the bed of the press.

It is obvious that instead of the crank L and pitman H a toggle-joint could be used to operate the lever.

M represents a socket cast on top of platen; N, slots passing transversely through the socket, and P a split ring which fits into a groove cut into screw 0. The screw 0 is fastened to platen O by passing a staple through slot N and closing the ends .thereof,- forming split ring 1?, and thus forming a swivel-joint.

It is obvious that other devices may be employed to raise and lower the platen by the throw of-the lever instead of the crank and pitman, such as a rack and pinion. Such change would still embrace the invention specified in the second clause of claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isg 1. In a press, the combination, with the movable platen, of a compound pressing device consisting of a screw connected with and carrying the platen, and a lever and toggle connected above the platen, with the screw for elevatin g and depressing the latter, the two said pressing devices being capable of acting together or independent of each other, substantially as described.

2. In a press, the combination, with the platen and the screw connected with the same,of a nut arranged on the screw and mechanism connected with the nut for elevating or depressing the same with the screw, the latter being capable of adjustment in the nut independent of its sliding movement, substantially as described.

3. In a press, the combination, with the platen, of a screw connected with the platen, a nut arranged on the screw, and a lever and toggle connected with the nut, substantially as described, whereby the nut and screw may be depressed or elevated by the lever or toggle, while the screw is capable of vertical adjustment in the nut independent of the movement of the same, as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, with the column B, hav- FREDRICK O. MILLER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD BOYD, JNo. E. JONES. 

